# Post ts_111009933665085418

- Post ID: `ts_111009933665085418`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2023-09-05T01:26:01.687Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111009933665085418
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_111009933665085418/analysis
- Audio narration: https://static.trump.fm/audio/ts_111009933665085418.mp3 (a synthesized voice reading the post text, not a recording)

## Post text

> Thank you Colby Covington, you’re the greatest—MAGA!!!

## What the media says

**Video transcript** (2:20), transcribed automatically, so names and numbers may be wrong. Speakers aren't identified, so a voice in it may not be his:

> - There was a viral moment a few years back after you won a big fight. You took a call from President Trump. - Oh, the POTUS has called me. Mr. President! - You are a great fighter, man. I've got you. You make it so easy out of that. Congratulations, I wanted to watch that fight tonight. - Oh man, that's one of the greatest moments in my career, to have a sitting president calling me after a fight, saying that he left a 60,000 person crowd in Ohio when he was rallying, just to call me and watch my fight. It's just so humbling, a small kid from Oregon, and here I am having the sitting president, the most famous person in the entire world, calling me to congratulate me, telling me that he watched my fight, and said that I fought with a lot of power and grit, and he's honored to follow me, and couldn't thank President Trump enough for what he's done for my career. - Who do you think he's backing in the Musk Zuckerberg fight? That's such an easy question. - Yeah, that's an easy question. He's all about free speech and our constitutional rights here in America, so I know that President Trump is definitely supporting Elon Musk in that fight. - Let's take it back, let's say, let's say 30 years for both guys, okay? They're both in their 40s, okay? Basically their 40s, Trump and Biden. And they both took a couple of months to get in shape. Who would win a fight if, again, they took some time to train and they were younger men? - It's no question. President Trump would drop a MAGA bomb on Biden. The thing with Biden is, you know, he can't even ride a bike. Look at Trump, he's going out to three rallies a day, flying across the country. - He has stamina. - Stamina for days, he's a cardio king. I mean, you've seen his hands. Those things are lunch boxes. If he hits you with those hands, you're going to sleep, it's night-night. - So at the fight in November, both Biden and Trump decide to go to watch. What do you think the crowd's reaction will be if Joe Biden decides he's gonna reach out to a different dynamic of the people who go to big UFC match? What do you think the crowd would do if Biden walked in? - Yeah, I think even in a blue city such as New York, I think all the crowd would boo him 'cause you see just how trash NYC is now and just, you know, it's a depleted city. And if Trump walked in, he'd be a rock star. It'd be like a Rolling Stones concert where everybody's on their feet screaming for President Trump and rooting his name, screaming USA 'cause they know he's the last fight between, you know, freedom and communism.

## Media

- video: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/111/009/933/376/282/807/original/5aca26ccb7d950e2.mp4

## Engagement

- Likes: 17,392
- Reposts: 4,570
- Replies: 444
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-02-01T01:19:51.399Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-03-24T07:56:01.679Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## Psychological Analysis: ts_111009933665085418

### Post Overview
A brief, celebratory acknowledgment of UFC welterweight Colby Covington — a publicly declared Trump loyalist — accompanied by an attached video (content unspecified, likely a pro-Trump statement or tribute by Covington). The post is among the shortest and lowest-tension in the observed sample.

### Authorship
**High confidence: authentic Trump.** Timestamp converts to ~9:26 PM Eastern (Bedminster, NJ, late summer). Stylistic markers — unqualified superlative, triple exclamation, em-dash MAGA closing — match the authentic register. No aide-polish indicators.

### Psychological State
Grandiose up-cycle. This is a supply-receipt event: Covington has offered public loyalty, Trump completes the circuit with maximum praise. The transactional structure is characteristic: loyalty → public elevation → reinforcement of the norm. Notably, this positive-affect post appears on the same date Trump waived his Georgia arraignment and amid the Tarrio sentencing (22 years for seditious conspiracy). The celebratory framing may serve a counter-narrative function — pivoting audience attention from legal exposure toward tribal solidarity.

### Personality Levels
**Level 1 (Traits):** High extraversion (assertive positive affect); low neuroticism in this episode; agreeableness elevated toward in-group.  
**Level 2 (Motives):** Power/status maintenance — publicly rewarding loyalists reinforces the patronage network; communion with the tribal base via shared identity (MAGA!!!).  
**Level 3 (Narrative):** Trump as magnanimous leader recognizing a worthy champion. Covington functions as the loyal warrior who earns the king's public blessing. Identity claim implicit: *I am someone whose endorsement is the highest possible honor.*

### Clinical Indicators
Idealization of a supporter is noted (immature defense) but context-normative for this subject. No clinical significance in isolation.

### Danger Assessment
None. Post is entirely positive-valence with no targeting, grievance articulation, or mobilization content.

### Fact Verification

| Claim | Verdict | Evidence |
|-------|---------|----------|
| "Colby Covington is supportive of Trump / MAGA" | **True** | Covington has been a publicly and repeatedly declared Trump supporter, wearing MAGA gear, visiting the White House, and making pro-Trump statements across multiple years. |

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Authorship Analysis

**Self-Written** (score: 85%)

### Indicators

- 9:26 PM Eastern time at Bedminster NJ (UTC-4 in early September) — evening posting consistent with authentic Trump window
- Characteristic superlative deployment ('the greatest')
- Triple exclamation points and em-dash before MAGA slogan — idiosyncratic punctuation pattern
- Informal, unpolished one-liner rather than structured announcement
- Emotional warmth directed at known Trump loyalist

## Psychological Profile

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Supply Seeking (Colby Covington (attached video, likely public pro-Trump statement))

Sentiment: +0.85

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 30%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 10%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Triangulation of celebrity-athlete loyalty to validate MAGA brand identity
- Public gratitude performance reinforcing transactional loyalty norm among base

## Fact Checks (1)

_The model's verdicts from 2026-03-24._

> Colby Covington is supportive of Trump / MAGA

**TRUE**

Covington has been a publicly and repeatedly declared Trump supporter, wearing MAGA gear, visiting the White House, and making pro-Trump statements across multiple years.

Sources: General knowledge — extensively documented public record

Overall Veracity: 100%

## Tags

- supply_receipt (80%)
- loyalty_reward (75%)
- tribal_bonding (70%)
- counter_narrative (50%)
- authentic_trump (85%)
- celebrity_endorsement (60%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**Legal Siege Day: 49 Posts Oscillate Between Grandiose Supply-Seeking and Rage-Fueled Projection as Tarrio Gets 22 Years**

A heavy posting day of 49 posts, driven by the sentencing of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio to 22 years for seditious conspiracy and the looming Georgia arraignment the next morning. The late morning featured a rapid-fire dump of over 20 links in under 40 minutes, building a legal defense wall out of borrowed voices and right-wing media clips. The afternoon pivoted to rehabilitating the mugshot as a badge of "street cred," while the evening escalated into direct, angry attacks on the January 6th committee and Jack Smith — with Trump accusing investigators of destroying classified documents, the same type of charge he himself faces. The day ended hotter than it started, with the final posts landing as raw, all-caps fury about political persecution.

Full digest for 2023-09-05: https://trump.fm/date/2023-09-05/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2023, September 5). Thank you Colby Covington, you’re the... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_111009933665085418
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "Thank you Colby Covington, you’re the greatest—MAGA!!!" Truth Social, 5 Sep. 2023. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111009933665085418. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "Thank you Colby Covington, you’re the greatest—MAGA!!!," Truth Social, September 5, 2023, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_111009933665085418.

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